Re: futex breakage in 4.9 stable branch

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On Thu, 2021-03-04 at 14:11 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 10:12:56AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > futex: fix 4.4-stable 34c8e1c2c025 backport inspired lockdep complaint
> >
> > 1. 34c8e1c2c025 "futex: Provide and use pi_state_update_owner()" was backported
> > to stable, leading to the therein assertion that pi_state->pi_mutex.wait_lock
> > be held triggering in 4.4-stable.  Fixing that leads to lockdep moan part 2.
> >
> > 2: b4abf91047cf "rtmutex: Make wait_lock irq safe" is absent in 4.4-stable, but
> > wake_futex_pi() nonetheless managed to acquire an unbalanced raw_spin_lock()
> > raw_spin_inlock_irq() pair, which inspires lockdep to moan after aforementioned
> > assert has been appeased.
> >
> > With this applied, futex tests pass, and no longer inspire lockdep gripeage.
> >
> > Not-Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  kernel/futex.c |    6 +++++-
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > --- a/kernel/futex.c
> > +++ b/kernel/futex.c
> > @@ -874,8 +874,12 @@ static void free_pi_state(struct futex_p
> >  	 * and has cleaned up the pi_state already
> >  	 */
> >  	if (pi_state->owner) {
> > +		unsigned long flags;
> > +
> > +		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&pi_state->pi_mutex.wait_lock, flags);
> >  		pi_state_update_owner(pi_state, NULL);
> >  		rt_mutex_proxy_unlock(&pi_state->pi_mutex);
> > +		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pi_state->pi_mutex.wait_lock, flags);
> >  	}
> >
> >  	if (current->pi_state_cache)
> > @@ -1406,7 +1410,7 @@ static int wake_futex_pi(u32 __user *uad
> >  	if (pi_state->owner != current)
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> >
> > -	raw_spin_lock(&pi_state->pi_mutex.wait_lock);
> > +	raw_spin_lock_irq(&pi_state->pi_mutex.wait_lock);
> >  	new_owner = rt_mutex_next_owner(&pi_state->pi_mutex);
> >
> >  	/*
> >
>
> Care to sign-off on it so that if this is correct, I can apply it?  :)

Consider it signed off iff Thomas acks it.  I think it's correct.. just
like the guys who have installed every other bug in the damn things,
just a wee bit less over-confident :)

	-Mike





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